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...Venture capitalist Esther Dyson ’71, who is also a member of the PGP-10, cited the project as an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of gene-sequencing...
...anti-pornography activist who spoke at Harvard this fall, said that bringing Hirsch to Yale in thiscontext was “one of the first times that a major pimp pornographer was sanitized by an Ivy League university.” “Steve Hirsch is a predatory capitalist, who is basically a pimp in an expensive suit. I can’t believe there aren’t female students at Yale who are outraged by this,” Dines said. “This makes the women and the students in general look stupid...
...number one hit “All I Wanna Do.” But here, again, the subject matter has a deeper bottom. There’s an allusion to the “seven hills,” presumably of Rome; a couple stark rebukes to capitalist greed (“We celebrate the golden cow / Praise the bloated bank account”); and an invocation of Babylon, whose most salient historical bullet-point is that its walls came tumbling down. These references all paint a picture of an America that’s ready to crumble.More...
...crew went on a bombing spree. Kunzru's theme is summed up in the circularity of the title: when Chris' cover gets blown, he has to confront the way idealism becomes what it opposes ("War can only be abolished through war") and the way lies--like Carver's capitalist-pig identity--can turn into the truth...
...White House. But Democrats can't count on a conservative crackup. It may be tempting to view the Republican race as a battle for the party's conservative identity, pitting antiabortion vs. antiterrorism vs. antitax, Huckabee the evangelical pastor vs. McCain the war hero vs. Romney the venture capitalist. But Super Tuesday's exit polls suggest that McCain did best among Republicans who care most about the economy, while Romney scored best on immigration. Many conservative leaders will never trust McCain, partly because he's taken them on with such glee on issues like campaign finance, and partly because...